1. Innovative approaches to deliver affordable housing options in Asia
Gopalganj Municipality
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2. Innovative approaches to deliver affordable housing options in Asia
RANGAMATI POURASHAVA
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3. Location of the Municipality
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4. Site seeing Gopalganj Municipality
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5. 1.A Characteristics of the city
City profile
1.A Characteristics of the city
Location: Between 22º50' and 23º01' north latitudes and between 89º40' and 90º02' east longitudes.
Name of the Municipality : Gopalganj Municipality
Population : (projection based on census)
Area: sq kilometer
Demographic density : 1774 persons/ sq kilometer
Household size 4.55
Urban population growth rate: 3.50%
-HDI
-GDP of the city
-GDP per capita
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6. Housing Status
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8. 1.B Characteristics of the city:
City profile
1.B Characteristics of the city:
Gopalganj municipality does not have an industrial base economy and it relies on cash crops such as rice, sugarcane, seasonal vegetables, jute, and fisheries. Historically, Gopalganj served as a regional growth pole, and though it still attracts rural migrants, it currently lacks the propulsive industries that are critical to economic development.
Main occupations: Agriculture 53.27%, nonagricultural laborer 2.49%, industry 0.47%, commerce 14.42%, transport and communication 4.33%, service 14.33%, construction 1.81%, religious service 0.40%, rent and remittance 1.27% and others 7.21%..
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9. Lack of available financing
City profile
2. City’s issues/needs
(What are the key problems/issues that city is facing in term of housing situation?)
Lack of Master plan
Lack of available financing
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10. Institutional structure of the city
3. Description of city’s governance structures for Housing sector
Gopalganj municipality is the administrative authority for development control inside the city. Each and every new housing needs permission from the local authority. Local authority follows ‘building construction act -1996’ and “Bangladesh national building code 2003” to approve any kind of housing inside the city.
Public works department under the ministry of housing and public works are responsible for government housing development.
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11. Municipality initiatives
4.A Specific actions:
Problem : unauthorized Slums build upon more than 25 years at Molavipara area and approximately 2000 people lived in that slum. Due to local and National interest
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12. Municipality initiatives
4.B Specific action (continued):
(Achievements and results; with photos, illustrations and diagrams that can illustrate better the achievements.)
South Molavi Para slum area with 346 households was located in Gopalganj municipal area and had developed slowly more than 35 years. The problem was occurred when expansion of sports facilities had took place beside the Molavi para slum area and claim their land for local and national interest. The slum was demolished and households were evicted different locations in the municipality on 21st October with a short notice. It is a common practice for slum eviction in our country. Due to lack of land ownership people of Molavi Para people had no right to fight with the authorities while evacuating them from their resident. But, they had good ally, that the community people were enlisted in the project named Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) at Gopalganj Pourashava (Municipality). The UPPR project was funded by United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Under UPPR project Molavi Para community people had developed a committee for community development which was knows community development committee (CDC). The CDC committee went to the local and national authorities and political leaders for their housing rights. Beside the CDC committee local political leaders and municipal authority acknowledged their problem and apple to government and land ministry for land allocation to resettle this uprooted inhabitants.
Government and non government organizations were very active to help those urban poor’s who were evicted from Molavipara slum. After appealing to ministry of land, Bangladesh by the affected people through Gopalganj Pourashava, ministry of land allocated 4.16 acre land in june at Mandartola area Gopalganj to rehabilate uprooted people and handed over the land to Gopalganj pourashava. Though the land was barren and not classified for homestead land, ministry of environment, Bangladesh and local pourashava had taken necessary steps to develop the land as homestead land.
UNDP funded a good amount of money to develop the barren land to homestead land and for the development of housing in it. Gopalganj pourashava had provided technical and official support to develop housing in Mandartola area. In the mean time CDC had developed a fund named Community Housing Development Fund (CHDF) jointly with municipal authority. An advisory committee was assembled to oversee and monitor the activities of CHDF where deputy commissioner of Gopalganj district and other technical resource persons were involved.  
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15. Municipality initiatives
5. Involved stakeholders:
(Brief description of the main public, private, community and civil society actors that work and dialogue in processes involves affordable and sustainable housing)
Deputy commissioner of Gopalganj
Mayor, Gopalganj municipality,
Local government engineering department
Other GO and NGOs
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16. Municipality initiatives
6. Policy framework:
(Brief description of major urban policies and strategies that drive the city to achieve the SDG11)
National Housing policy-2017
National urban sector policy
Urban and regional planning Act 2017 (draft) 2017
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17. Municipality initiatives
7. Opportunities
(What are the opportunities for improving affordability and sustainability of housing sector the city that you can identify?
What are the positive experience on innovative tools/approaches you can share with other cities/countries?)
Developing stage
Government and private funding
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18. Thank you! [E-mail: suvarna41@gmail.com Telephone:+8801552445095
Name: Suvarna Chakma
Position: Town Planner
Organization: Rangamati Municipalty
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